Marble Sculpting Tools
Stone carving tool catalogs and links.
Marble sculpting tools. In this video watch a contemporary sculptor demonstrate the use of traditional tools such as the tooth chisel the point chisel the drill and the rasp as he creates a finished figure of a woman from a block of marble. Trow holden co. Po box 411 11 blackwell st. In geology the term marble refers to metamorphosed limestone but its use in stonemasonry more broadly encompasses unmetamorphosed limestone.
Marble is a metamorphic rock composed of recrystallized carbonate minerals most commonly calcite or dolomite marble may be foliated. Many of the sculptor s tools had a variety of functions and could be used at different stages of the carving process. Barre vt 05641 1 800 451 4570.